TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Their second album and first for Interscope is almost wholly brilliant. Like Mogwai, Sigur Ros and a dozen others, TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics. Unlike virtually any of those other bands, TV on the Radio mix a genuine and actual songwriting ability with their knack for finding sounds that appear to be "new." This record is crisper-sounding and incorporates more dance-based elements, but it's essentially a pop album. While the lack of the free web-released "Dry Drunk Emperor, a tribute to President Bush, is initially a bummer, the album percolates with enough pre-apocalyptic tension to satisfy anyone. In a Prince-pitched falsetto, the group sings "I was a lover/ Before this war," While throughout, the combination of melody and invention is always pitch-perfect (well, except on "Province" and "Let the Devil In," those songs sort of suck.) People of Earth: please make this band into total superstars and buy several copies of their album: one for the car, another for the office, etc. What we really need in our popular music is more weirdness, and more truth. --Mike McGonigal
See also:
Pitchfork's Top Albums of the 2000s
Tracks
- A1) I Was A Lover
- A2) Hours
- A3) Province
- A4) Playhouses
- A5) Wolf Like Me
- A6) Method
- B1) Let The Devil In
- B2) Dirtywhirl
- B3) Blues From Down Here
- B4) Tonight
- B5) Wash The Day
Track listing above is from 2013-Jan-01 | Europe | 4AD - CAD 2607 LP
- 2013-Jan-01 | Europe | 4AD - CAD 2607 LP
- 2008-Jan-01 | US | Original Recordings Group (2) - ORG 002 LP
- 2006-Jun-03 | Europe | 4AD - CAD 2607 LP
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